Thursday, July 22, 2010

Sure, It's Kafkaesque, But Which One?

Seems a stack of Kafka's unpublished works is caught in a legal battle between the granddaughters of the one-time rightful owner and an Israeli museum. Lots of newspapers have called the struggle Kafkaesque, citing his more famous works The Penal Colony, The Trial, and The Judgment. I think it's right out of his really esoteric parable Before the Law, about how greed and power have greater access to the law and the poor struggle and whither before it. We'll see, I guess.

Check out the article here.

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